Figures Of Speech In The Bible & The Complexity of The Hebrew & Greek Language.
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Even For example, when summarizing God's creative work, Moses referes to all six creative days as one day in Genesis 2:4.

Yet, it wasen't in one day.
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So how old was the beginning?
In The Beginning Was Jesus!
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1

Yet still.
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1


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So how old is Jesus and when was the beginning?
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6

As Dr. Danny Faulkner and Dr Hugh Ross did agree that the word Yom can have 4 different meanings and even mean a long finate period of time and that was agreed on. That is how the word in the beginning could also have a greater meaning to it as well. That is also how Pastor Doug could interpret the Hebrew word yom as 6 literal days and another could interpret it as a thousand years and another as a long finate period of time. But still "agree" that God created it.
And that is how Pastor Doug who seems to believe in 6 literal days of Creation can also at the same time have a slightly different interpretation of the wording on the subject of hell when you look into the Greek and Hebrew.
Just because there may be more then one use for that word in the original translation "besides the standard English version choice."
There are still perimeters and limits surrounding the orginal words. As John Ankerberg said the language persuaded him to change his mind and that goes for others who have changed their mind too..
I will let the language lead me as well and that is why it would we wonderful to see on his show in this manner done the debate by the experts in the subject on both sides with..
" Bible Scholars of the Hebrew and Greek and History.
Otherwise there is the Exhaustive Concordance to consider too.
Let the chips fall where they may in translation it would be a really interesting debate to see. I'd watch it.